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Research Publications (Food Safety)

This page tracks research articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Recent articles are available ahead of print and searchable by Journal, Article Title, and Category. Research publications are tracked across six categories: Bacterial Pathogens, Chemical Contaminants, Natural Toxins, Parasites, Produce Safety, and Viruses. Articles produced by USDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) and FDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) are also tracked in Scopus.

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  1. Overview of Edible Bird’s Nests and Their Contemporary Issues

    • Food Control

    • Available online 2 May 2019

      Author(s): Nurul Hidayah Jamalluddin, Nur Azira Tukiran, Nurrulhidayah Ahmad Fadzillah, Sharihan Fathi

  2. Impact of ultrasound decontamination on the microbial and sensory quality of fresh produce

    • Food Control

    • Available online 2 May 2019

      Author(s): Leandra Neto, David Millan-Sango, Jean-Pierre Brincat, Luís M. Cunha, Vasilis P. Valdramidis

  3. Application of antifungal lactobacilli in combination with coatings based on apple processing by-products as a bio-preservative in wheat bread production

    • Journal of Food Science and Technology

    • Abstract

      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Aspergillus decontamination in hazelnuts: Evaluation of atmospheric and low-pressure plasma technology

    • Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

    • Publication date: Available online 1 May 2019

      Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

      Author(s): Yasin Sen, Baran Onal-Ulusoy, Mehmet Mutlu

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins

  5. Evaluation of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and next generation sequencing (NGS) in combination with enrichment culture techniques to identify bacteria in commercial microbial-based products

    • Journal of Microbiological Methods

    • Available online 30 April 2019

      Author(s): R.M. Subasinghe, A.D. Samarajeewa, R. Scroggins, L.A. Beaudette

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Antimicrobial resistance of Enterobacter cloacae complex isolates from the surface of muskmelons

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Available online 30 April 2019

      Author(s): Irene Esteban-Cuesta, Samart Dorn-In, Nathalie Drees, Christina Hölzel, Christoph Gottschalk, Manfred Gareis, Karin Schwaiger

      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Listeria monocytogenes risk assessment on cold smoked and salt-cured fishery products in Finland - A repeated exposure model

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Available online 2 May 2019

      Author(s): Petra Pasonen, Jukka Ranta, Heli Tapanainen, Liisa Valsta, Pirkko Tuominen

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Modification of peanut protein isolate in glucose-containing solutions during simulated industrial thermal processes and gastric-duodenal sequential digestion

    • Food Chemistry

    • Available online 30 April 2019

      Author(s): Yalan Hu, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Lei Liu, Weiwei He, Mouming Zhao, Guowan Su

  9. Molecular and Technical Aspects on the Interaction of Serum Albumin with Multifunctional Food Preservatives

    • Food Chemistry

    • Available online 2 May 2019

      Author(s): Hossein Mohammadzadeh-Aghdash, Nader Akbari, Karim Esazadeh, Jafar Ezzati Nazhad Dolatabadi

  10. A potential protective culture; halophilic Bacillus isolates with bacteriocin encoding gene against Staphylococcus aureus in salt added foods

    • Food Control

    • Available online 1 May 2019

      Author(s): Vishal Chhetri, Cheunjit Prakitchaiwattana, Sarn Settachaimongkon

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. TLR4 Participates in the Inflammatory Response Induced by the AAF/II Fimbriae From Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli on Intestinal Epithelial Cells

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) infections are one of the most frequent causes of persistent diarrhea in children, immunocompromised patients and travelers worldwide. The most prominent colonization factors of EAEC are aggregative adherence fimbriae (AAF). EAEC prototypical strain 042 harbors the AAF/II fimbriae variant, which mediates adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells and participates in the induction of an inflammatory response against this pathogen.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Establishment and application of isothermal multiple-self-matching-initiated amplification (IMSA) in detecting Type II heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli

    • PLOS ONE

    • Wenxin Liu, Chaowen Yuan, Liguo Zhang, Yufei Feng

      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Enterobactin-Specific Antibodies Induced by a Novel Enterobactin Conjugate Vaccine [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Enterobactin (Ent)-mediated high-affinity iron acquisition is critical for Gram-negative bacteria to survive in the host. Given the bacteriostatic effect of lipocalin resulting from its potent Ent-binding ability, immune intervention directly targeting Ent is promising for iron-dependent pathogen control. Recently, an Ent conjugate vaccine was reported, but it still has several significant weaknesses.

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Salmonella enterica in Soils Amended with Heat-Treated Poultry Pellets Survived Longer than Bacteria in Unamended Soils and More Readily Transferred to and Persisted on Spinach [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Untreated biological soil amendments of animal origin (BSAAO) are commonly used as biological fertilizers but can harbor foodborne pathogens like Salmonella enterica, leading to potential transfer from soils to fruits and vegetables intended for human consumption. Heat-treated poultry pellets (HTPP) can provide produce growers with a slow-release fertilizer with a minimized risk of pathogen contamination.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Differentiation of Vegetative Cells into Spores: a Kinetic Model Applied to Bacillus subtilis [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Spore-forming bacteria are natural contaminants of food raw materials, and sporulation can occur in many environments from farm to fork. In order to characterize and to predict spore formation over time, we developed a model that describes both the kinetics of growth and the differentiation of vegetative cells into spores. The model is based on a classical growth model and enables description of the kinetics of sporulation with the addition of three parameters specific to sporulation.

      • Bacillus cereus

  16. Clinically Unreported Salmonellosis Outbreak Detected via Comparative Genomic Analysis of Municipal Wastewater Salmonella Isolates [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Municipal wastewater includes human waste that contains both commensal and pathogenic enteric microorganisms, and this collective community microbiome can be monitored for community diseases. In a previous study, we assessed the salmonellosis disease burden using municipal wastewater from Honolulu, Hawaii, which was monitored over a 54-week period.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Potential for Microbially Mediated Natural Attenuation of Diluted Bitumen on the Coast of British Columbia (Canada) [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Western Canada produces large amounts of bitumen, a heavy, highly weathered crude oil. Douglas Channel and Hecate Strait on the coast of British Columbia are two water bodies that may be impacted by a proposed pipeline and marine shipping route for diluted bitumen (dilbit). This study investigated the potential of microbial communities from these waters to mitigate the impacts of a potential dilbit spill.

      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Validation and Stabilization of a Prophage Lysin of Clostridium perfringens by Using Yeast Surface Display and Coevolutionary Models [Enzymology and Protein Engineering]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Bacteriophage lysins are compelling antimicrobial proteins whose biotechnological utility and evolvability would be aided by elevated stability. Lysin catalytic domains, which evolved as modular entities distinct from cell wall binding domains, can be classified into one of several families with highly conserved structure and function, many of which contain thousands of annotated homologous sequences.

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Expert Elicitation for Estimation of the Proportion Foodborne for Selected Microbial Pathogens in New Zealand

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • , Ahead of Print.
      Objectives: To estimate the proportions of human cases of nine specific microbial diseases in New Zealand that were due to transmission by food and the proportion of the foodborne burden that was due to transmission by some specific foods.

  20. Simple methods to predict the minimum baking time of bread

    • Food Control

    • Available online 30 April 2019

      Author(s): Emmanuel Purlis

  21. Inactivation of Salmonella Enteritidis on Eggshells by Lactic Acid Spray

    • Food Control

    • Available online 1 May 2019

      Author(s): Zhuoyang Li, Rongxian Guo, Fan Wang, Shizhong Geng, Xilong Kang, Chuang Meng, Dan Gu, Xinan Jiao, Zhiming Pan

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Cold plasma treatment of ready-to-eat ham: Influence of process conditions and storage on inactivation of Listeria innocua

    • Food Research International

    • Available online 30 April 2019

      Author(s): Barun Yadav, Ana Claudia Spinelli, Byju N. Govindan, Ying Y. Tsui, Lynn M. McMullen, M.S. Roopesh

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. Lactobacillus strains inhibit biofilm formation of Salmonella sp. isolates from poultry

    • Food Research International

    • Available online 30 April 2019

      Author(s): Lina Merino, Fernando M. Trejo, Graciela De Antoni, Marina A. Golowczyc

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Short communication: Bioinformatics-based mining of novel gene targets for identification of Cronobacter turicensis using PCR

    • Journal of Dairy Science

    • Cronobacter turicensis is a food-borne pathogen found in dairy products. It has been reported to cause bacteremia and enteritis in immunocompromised people, especially infants. Cronobacter turicensis has been isolated from various food sources, and contaminated powdered infant formula was found to be the most common source of infection among infants. Although some gene targets are used for the identification of C. turicensis, they are not specific at the species level.

      • Cronobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  25. Determination of Multiclass Pesticides Residues in Corn by QuEChERS and Capillary Electrophoresis Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    • Food Analytical Methods

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants